Virtual Railfan cam. They make an eerie whoosh with a scream added when they pass close to the cam.
In the dark you can see the arcs as the pan rubs the wire overhead.

You look up, and, all of a sudden, there they are.

That might be the only place you can watch electrics on VR.

I’ve got VR’s feed of Ashland, Virginia, on right now. There are three kids with a camera set up on a tripod on the platform waiting for Amtrak 80 and 90. That’s a nice place to watch trains.

youtubedotcom/watch?v=e47XhLmZhFk

Edited: four kids with two cameras on tripods.

Northbound Carolinian is by Ashland. Northbound Palmetto is still at Richmond. Southbound Silver Star, 91, just went by. The kids went for the shadowy side view. Kids today! Southbound Autotrain is out of Lorton. Maybe CSX will send a freight through to liven things up. The scanner feed is online.

Now 124 is on the way.

You really started me on watching those cams. Thanks for the tip. I am fairly proficient at the Amtrak map as well as the transit docs. I wish there was a better way to track the freights.
Keeping an eye on the various chats helps to locate unusual sightings on the various cam sites. I’m still not able to log in and subscribe yet though. I have to work out a way to reactivate my dormant Hotmail email to use for a login address.

Things can heat up starting at about 5:30 a.m. If the northbound Silver Meteor is late, not that that ever happens, you see him. CSX is in the habit of sending through a northbound stack train a few minutes ahead of 86’s schedule. Then, at 6:16, you get 86. That’s pretty reliable, as it originates in Richmond. You see the same people riding that train, as it serves as a commuter train.

There are some groups.io groups for CSX sightings, but I don’t know of anyone who concentrated on the Richmond-Petersburg-Ashland area.

https://groups.io/g/railscan

https://broadcastify.com/listen/feed/36975

You need only one frequency to listen to trains on the old RF&P: 161.550 MHz.

6:47 late the other day. That’s six hours late. I look for it in Florida the evening before and it’s always an hour or more late even then.

Trains across the southwest and southeast were hours late for a few days last week.

One neat thing about VR is that it makes the last twelve hours of video available. If you miss a train, you can get in the time machine and go back in time to see what you missed.

Fort Madison, Iowa.

will be waiting for the railfans to start posting vids .